RIP Johnny Majors

[TigerVols]

JimBob TigerVols?

That game must have been played in an alternate universe. Tennessee hasn't played in a California bowl game since 1945.

Yeah, that's funny because I always thought the bowl he played in that year (or thereabouts) was the Garden State Bowl. I figured my memory was incorrect, not the writer's!

 

[ChrisLong]

Dammit. Wrong is wrong. All I can think of now is that it must have been a game against UCLA at the Rose Bowl.
Those of you suffering from CRS* know what I mean.

*Can't remember ****

 

[MileHigh]

Dammit. Wrong is wrong. All I can think of now is that it must have been a game against UCLA at the Rose Bowl.
Those of you suffering from CRS* know what I mean.

*Can't remember ****

Tennessee played UCLA at the Rose Bowl in 1989 so that might be what you're misremembering.

And it played USC at the Coliseum in 1981.

 

[ChrisLong]

Tennessee played UCLA at the Rose Bowl in 1989 so that might be what you're misremembering.

And it played USC at the Coliseum in 1981.

The '89 game was probably the one.

 

[ChrisLong]

Did you ever have any dealings with Neal Callaway while he was OL coach under Helton? Former UAB HC and an SEC caliber OL coach, he has the worst case of mush mouth combined with the Bear Bryant mumble that I've ever heard. I'm 64, lived in the South all my life, and it was all I could do to understand half of what he said. I laughed at the idea of him dealing with urban black recruits from the West coast. "What did he just say?".

No. I went to the desk in 1995 and retired in 2014. All I know is that Callaway is symbolic of Helton's dreadful performance at USC. Helton's dad and Callaway are great friends, so that's why Clay hired him. He couldn't recruit for ****. Clancy Pendergast, the d-coor, didn't recruit at all. Helton hired his buddies and it was a disaster.

 

[exmediahack]

Is he answering the question from the Lord after going for the 20-20 tie against Auburn?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I know it was a different era, but 16 points seems like decent containing. :)



Bo's first year was 1982. Herschel's last year was 1982.

Here’s a recap of that 1982 meeting between Bo and Herschel. It was before Bo became Bo.
Georgia’s Herschel Walker vs Auburn’s Bo Jackson 1982 | College Football Crazy

 

[goalmouth]

Majors had 30-some assistants go on to college HC jobs or NFL.

 

[TigerVols]

Majors had 30-some assistants go on to college HC jobs or NFL.

Including WLAT!

 

[Neutral Corner]

No. I went to the desk in 1995 and retired in 2014. All I know is that Callaway is symbolic of Helton's dreadful performance at USC. Helton's dad and Callaway are great friends, so that's why Clay hired him. He couldn't recruit for ****. Clancy Pendergast, the d-coor, didn't recruit at all. Helton hired his buddies and it was a disaster.

Kim Helton was Callaway's OC at UAB. He sucked too.

 

[ChrisLong]

Kim Helton was Callaway's OC at UAB. He sucked too.

Trojans fans are praying that the incoming coaches are really good and Clay Helton doesn't try to step in and mess things up.

 

[Neutral Corner]

So ****ing many futile QB draws. They're not a surprise when they're 20% of the game plan.

UAB Football. Painfully bad. I witnessed the majority of Watson Brown's setting the all time D-1 football HC loss record. Then Neil Callaway and Clay Helton. Then Garrett McGee, who won five games in two seasons and took an OC job to get out. God Bless Bill Clark, balm for the long suffering fans.